Gmail Question

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iPad Fan

I use Gmail and I noticed that even though I have no deleted messages in my account online, the mail app on my iPad says there are over 400 messages in the All Mail folder. Is there any way to do a mass delete of the folder? It will take FOREVER to delete 459 messages. And where are these messages coming from? I don't see them online.

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iPF Novice

Gmail archives all mail (sent and received) in the All Mail folder, unless you change the settings and tell it not to do this. You will have to go online with your browser to change that. You cannot change it from within the Mail client.

Deleting those messages online is rather quick and easy, if you make sure you use the full desktop layout in your browser, not the limited mobile layout. You can change this at the bottom of the page.

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iPF Novice

What you can do is the following: go to the Gmail settings and then to 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP'. Enable POP and choose not to archive messages that have been collected. Finally, in the Mail app, set your Gmail account to use POP. From now on, all new mail is downloaded to your iPad and deleted from the server. Delete mail from the inbox and it's gone.

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